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Energy Community contracting parties transpose REMIT type rules but implementation patchy
LONDON (ICIS)--All Energy Community contracting parties have transposed legislation prohibiting insider trading and market manipulation but implementation remained limited across the board in 2025,...
LNG shipping under pressure amid insurance renewals and costs
Additional war-risks cover required by shipping New terms and higher premiums in other areas of maritime insurance By the time Qatari LNG production returns, insurance industry will have a clearer...
FBMC WEEKLY: Strong French supply, low German wind could widen spot power spreads
LONDON (ICIS)--Diverging renewable output forecasts across central and western Europe are likely to widen French-German power spreads this week, with mild temperatures and ample nuclear and renewable...
LNG SPOTLIGHT: Geopolitics reshapes East Asian LNG-TTF spread as traders reassess global gas risk
LONDON (ICIS)--Escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East are reverberating through global gas markets, widening the spread between Asian LNG benchmarks and European hub prices as traders...
GAS ALERT: Eni discovers almost 30bcm of gas in Libya
MILAN (ICIS)--Italian gas company Eni made two new gas discovery in Libya with a total potential volume of about 28 billion cubic meters (bcm), the company announced on 16 March. The two geological...
MARGINS: Soaring upstream costs deepen losses in Europe PE contract margins
LONDON (ICIS)--Contract margins at polyethylene (PE) plants in Europe fell steeply week on week driven by further rises in feedstock and energy costs, ICIS Margin Analysis showed on Monday. Stronger...
Iran war curbs appetite for long term LNG capacity in Germany, increasing reliance on spot cargoes
Additional reporting by Ghassan Zumot Traders say uncertainty and volatility leave no room for long-term planning Germany still needs significant LNG volumes to refill underground storage this summer...
MARKET HIGHLIGHT: European spreads to TTF adapt to Iran war supply dynamics
LONDON (ICIS)--European regional gas hubs are continuing to adapt to an altered global supply environment in the wake of the Iran war. The shock of reduced and disrupted global LNG supply initially...
MARKET HIGHLIGHT: Italian gas curve backwardation likely to persist amid regulation uncertainties and war in Middle East
MILAN (ICIS)--Price backwardation across the Italian PSV gas Summer '26 and Winter '26 contracts, as shown by ICIS price assessments, is expected to persist as the market tracks gas storage policy...
Italian TSO unfazed by seasonal backwardation ahead of gas summer
Snam CEO says no volume issues for Italy at present despite backwardation Energy decree described as 'positive move' Still time to support gas injection, CEO maintains MILAN (ICIS)--Italian gas...
Poland’s Azoty shareholders vote to issue new shares to fund investments
LONDON (ICIS)--Poland's financially embattled Grupa Azoty late on Friday announced that a vote taken at an extraordinary general meeting approved the issuance of new share capital to the State...
OPINION: Iran war shock strengthens case for German strategic gas reserve
This article reflects the personal views of the author and is not necessarily an expression of ICIS's position. FRANKFURT (ICIS)--The case for a German strategic gas reserve, explicitly carved out...
State intervention possible despite better preparation for supply risk – German gas industry association CEO
Russian gas unlikely to return but phaseout and loss of Qatari gas could create difficulties German government in 'wait-and-see' mode over storage filling targets EU should consider manageable...
Russian gas importers still waiting for customs approval two days before ban
Russian gas importers still waiting for customs approval two days before ban Market participants expect this to be administrative delay only, but no clarity on April Almost zero additional entry...
California finds no significant risk to human health from synthetic turf fields
After years of conflicting safety findings, the head of the state’s environmental hazard assessment office says this new study should ‘ease concerns’
Fritz Strassmann: the principled chemist who discovered nuclear fission
Analytical chemist Friedrich Strassmann played a crucial role in discovering nuclear fission with Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, but his principled opposition to Nazi ideology nearly destroyed his career. His story of scientific rigour and
Physicist’s piezoelectric pirouettes claims top spot at this year’s Dance your PhD competition
Contemporary dance explains why some materials generate electricity under stress
The nano-lasagna: Novel 2D materials gain momentum
There is more than just graphene: In an interdisciplinary project, Empa researchers have focused on a new class of two-dimensional materials known as MXenes. This versatile group of materials is suitable for a wide range
Tailor-made New Battery Materials
Batteries must be powerful, safe, and sustainable — at the same time, they must be cost-effective to produce. At InterBattery 2026 in Seoul, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Polymer Research IAP will present new materials for
The limitations of nontargeted chemical analysis
In a recent study published in Analytical Chemistry, researchers from the University of Amsterdam’s Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) reveal a sobering reality regarding "nontargeted" chemical analysis. Although widely used for screening